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It was a nice summer read, as it had a fairly quick pack to the book and other than a few moments in which the story seemed to drag, it was a book that one could read large portions of the book without really getting lost. It didn't really need to have the Bertha/Jim storyline, as it only seemed to serve really no purpose in the overall storyline and could have been easily reduced by about 50 pages and still be quite effective. Interestingly enough, the story is believed to be based on the life
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I haven't looked to try and figure out how much the author took advantage of the popularity of Downton Abbey, but with a protagonist named Cora I have my suspicions. not to say I didn't enjoy it - I certainty did. The heiress in question, Cora, marries an English duke, and the novel follows through the birth of their first child. We see as she goes from struggling with her mother to sparring with her mother in law, all the while trying to navigate an entirely new, and more codified, social scene
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Done. Meh. Not Downton Abbey.
Oct 29, 2012
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